Susan Sarandon has written her name in film history. But her famous last name is the result of her decision to marry her college boyfriend to avoid expulsion, the Daily Mail reported. In 1967, Susan said "I do" to Chris Sarandon, who also become an actor and went on to star in iconic pictures like "Friday Night" and "The Princess Bride." Susan, whose birth name is Tomalin, and Chris had met at the Catholic University of America three years earlier. "I was so grateful I decided to get married. And only because we would've gotten kicked out of school," she said on the "Divorced Not Dead" podcast in 2021 (via Daily Mail).
But Susan and Chris married on one condition. "We agreed that we would decide every year whether or not to renew because I didn't like the idea of taking it for granted," she explained. Even though she chose to change her relationship status for practical reasons, Susan jumped into marriage knowing what it entailed. "I married so young but took it very seriously; I never had that kind of free-love 1960s," she told The Telegraph.
Her only husband was also Susan's first lover. "He was the first person I ever had sex with and my best friend," she added. They amicably split in 1974. "Every year we would decide if we wanted to stay married and after seven years we decided mutually to move on," she said (via Daily Mail).
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